So C's 1st birthday is coming up and I bought a Groupon for a photo session with a children's photographer. I'm thinking a couple cute outfits, maybe a cake smash, and maybe with my wedding dress. BUT! I don't know when to do the pics.

The photog said she would have images back to us in about 2 weeks, so if I wanted to have some cute cake smash photos displayed at her party, I would have to take them around 11 months (which somehow seems like "cheating" to me?). If I got them done around her birthday, they wouldn't really see the light of day (just us and close family).

When did you take/plan on taking 1st birthday photos? Does it really matter?